Pointing Dog Steadiness
Purpose: To prepare your dog for hunting, AKC hunt tests, and the steadiness component of the NAVHDA Utility test. You will know how to train your dog to be steady to the flush, wing, shot and the fall by the end of this course.
Prerequisites: Obedience training entailing heeling, whoa and come (here), dog must have been properly introduced to gunfire and the e-collar.
Course Cost (Register above):
For Credit: Live and OnDemand=$225
Audited:
Live=$150; OnDemand=$120
Credits: 3*
*Applies toward the Professional Canine Training Specialist: Pointing Dog Specialization certificate program for students registered in the PCTS program ONLY. Others: take as an Audit course.
What you can expect to learn from this Course:
- Understanding the need for steadiness both in the hunting and testing environment
- Safety reasons for steadiness
- How this course can help enhance other areas of the NAVDHA Utility test
- Whoa board
- Whoa on the ground
- E-collar introduction and use
- Whistle introduction and use
- How to train steadiness to the flush, wing, shot and fall
Course Info: The Pointing Dog Steadiness course focuses on training techniques and theories for starting your dog on steadiness, the equipment to use, the types of training environments to use and step-by-step instruction to get your dog ready for hunting, AKC hunt tests and the NAVHDA Utility test.
Instructor, Lynn Erickson, has been involved with the care and training of animals all of her life. Lynn grew up on a farm in central Minnesota, hunting ruffed grouse without the benefit of a hunting dog. She has been involved with hunting dogs, their training, testing and breeding for the past 21 years. She owns and operates Herbst Briese Kennels, a full service kennel, offering training, boarding and grooming. She is a certified tattoo artist with the 
National Dog Registry.
I fell in love with pointing dogs long before I became a NAVHDA member or a NAVHDA judge. I have hunted behind and trained all sorts of dogs, but fell in love with my German Shorthairs. I personally own ten. I have hunted upland game and waterfowl for the past 35 years, sometimes without a dog or with someone else’s dog. I came to realize that hunting with a dog was by far, more enjoyable and productive. I have been involved in NAVHDA for the past 19 years and a NAVHDA judge for the past eleven years, just recently receiving a promotion to Senior Judge. Being a NAVHDA judge affords me the opportunity to walk behind a lot of different dogs, and allows me to see, first hand, many dogs. I have successfully trained my own dogs in the NAVHDA testing program through all levels of testing, including placing the title of Versatile Champion on my own Angel. During the past three years, I started testing my dogs in the AKC Hunt Tests.
Every fall will find me afield with my dogs, in Minnesota and North Dakota, in pursuit of ringneck pheasant, ruffed grouse, sharptails and ducks.
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